2005

For my "time capsule" original top ten list by Canadian (Toronto) release dates and personal awards, click here.

1. The Wayward Cloud [Tsai Ming-liang] A
2. A History of Violence [David Cronenberg]
3. Grizzly Man [Werner Herzog]
4. The New World [Terrence Malick]
5. The Death of Mr. Lazarescu [Cristi Puiu]
   
6. The Sun [Alexander Sokurov] A-
7. Caché [Michael Haneke]
8. L'Enfant [Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne]
9. Gilaneh [Rakhshan Bani Etemad, Mohsen Abdolvahab] B+
10. Me and You and Everyone We Know [Miranda July]
11. The Descent [Neil Marshall]
    
12. Capote [Bennett Miller]
13. Manderlay [Lars von Trier]
14. C.R.A.Z.Y. [Jean-Marc Vallée]
15. The Squid and the Whale [Noah Baumbach]
16. The Curse of the Were-Rabbit [Steve Box, Nick Park]
17. Pride and Prejudice [Joe Wright]
18. Last Days [Gus van Sant]
19. Murderball [Henry Alex Rubin, Dana Adam Shapiro]
20. 49 Up [Michael Apted]
21. Brokeback Mountain [Ang Lee] B
22. Junebug [Phil Morrison]
23. Munich [Steven Spielberg]
24. The Upside of Anger [Mike Binder]
25. The 40-Year-Old Virgin [Judd Apatow]
26. The Beat That My Heart Skipped [Jacques Audiard]
27. Drawing Restraint 9 [Matthew Barney]
28. Happy Endings [Don Roos]
29. Proof [John Madden]
30. John & Jane [Ashim Ahluwalia]
31. Free Zone [Amos Gitai]
32. The Notorious Bettie Page [Mary Harron]
33. Three Times [Hsiao-hsien Hou]
    
34. Good Night, and Good Luck [George Clooney]
35. The World [Zhang Ke Jia]
36. Jarhead [Sam Mendes] B-
37. The Forsaken Land [Vimukthi Jayasundara]
38. Red Eye [Wes Craven]
39. The Exorcism of Emily Rose [Scott Derrickson]
40. Dark Water [Walter Salles]
41. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire [Mike Newell]
42. Heights [Chris Terrio]
43. Sabah [Rubu Nadda]
44. V for Vendetta [James McTeigue]
45. Hustle and Flow [Craig Brewer]
46. Star Wars: Episode Three – Revenge of the Sith [George Lucas]
47. Downfall [Oliver Hirschbiegel]
48. Batman Begins [Christopher Nolan]
49. Dave Chappelle's Block Party [Michel Gondry]
    
50. Water [Deepa Mehta]
51. Seed of Chucky [Don Mancini]
52. My Summer of Love [Pawel Pawlikowski]
53. Mr. and Mrs. Smith [Doug Liman]
54. Mrs. Harris [Phillis Nagy] C+
55. The Willow Tree [Majid Majidi]
56. The Constant Gardener[Fernando Meirelles]
57. The Proposition [John Hillcoat]
    
58. The Skeleton Key [Iain Softley]
59. King Kong [Peter Jackson]
60. Parineeta [Pradeep Sarkar]
61. Black [Sanjay Leela Bhansali]
62. In Her Shoes [Curtis Hanson]
63. Adam & Steve [Craig Chester]
    
64. Melinda and Melinda [Woody Allen]
65. Paheli [Amol Palekar]
66. Syriana [Stephen Gaghan]
67. Walk the Line [James Mangold]
68. Mrs. Henderson Presents [Stephen Frears]
69. The White Diamond [Werner Herzog]
70. Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride [Tim Burton, Mike Johnson]
71. The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants [Ken Kwapis]
72. The Family Stone [Thomas Bezucha] C
73. Shopgirl [Anand Tucker]
74. The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe [Andrew Adamson]
75. The Interpreter [Sydney Pollack]
76. Beauty Shop [Billie Woodruff]
77. L’Enfer [Danis Tanovic]
78. Walk on Water [Eytan Fox]
79. Cinderella Man [Ron Howard]
80. The Rising: Ballad of Mangal Pandey [Karan Mehta]
81. Memories in the Mist [Buddhadev Dasgupta]
82. Bunty Aur Babli [Shaad Ali]
83. Cake [Nisha Ganatra]
    
84. The Jacket [John Maybury]
85. Rent [Chris Columbus]
86. Hide and Seek [Jon Polson] C-
87. Imaginary Heroes [Dan Harris]
88. Brick [Rian Johnson]
    
89. Broken Flowers [Jim Jarmusch]
90. Match Point [Woody Allen]
91. War of the Worlds [Steven Spielberg]
92. Prime [Ben Younger]
93. Sin City [Robert Rodriguez, Frank Miller]
94. Where the Truth Lies [Atom Egoyan]
95. North Country [Niki Caro]
96. Transamerica [Duncan Tucker]
97. Bam Bam and Celeste [Lorraine Machado]
98. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory [Tim Burton]
99. Fun with Dick and Jane [Dean Parisot]
100. Monster-in-Law [Robert Luketic]
101. Tideland [Terry Gilliam]
102. Elizabethtown [Cameron Crowe] D+
     
103. Bee Season [Scott McGehee, David Siegel]
104. Hitch [Andy Tennant]
105. Lucky – No Time for Love [Radhika Rao, Vinay Supro]
106. Casanova [Lasse Hallstrom] D
     
107. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy [Garth Jennings]
108. Must Love Dogs [Gary David Goldberg]
     
109. Salaam Namaste [Siddharth Anand]
110. Kisna: The Warrior Poet [Subhash Ghai]
111. Pretty Persuasion [Marcos Siega]
112. Hostel [Eli Roth]
     
113. Bewafaa [Darmesh Darshan] D-
114. Memoirs of a Geisha [Rob Marshall]
115. Stay [Mark Forster] F
     
116. The Fog [Rupert Wainwright]
117. Garam Masala [Priyadarshan]
     
118. The Legend of Zorro [Martin Campbell]